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dumping snow on an area that spans 1,000 miles. see just how bad it is inside that storm zone. and if you were disappointed you did not pick the mega millions winning numbers, cheer up. nobody did. the jackpot is even larger. we'll tell you just how big it will grow this hour. we start in colorado, a day after a school shooting miles from columbine. ana, what's the latest on the investigation? >> reporter: martin, we know there are a lot of unanswered questions this morning. police have identified the gunman as 18-year-old karl pierson. we're learning more about where they're looking for clues. today, investigators plan to search the home where he lived.

they're also searching his father's home to see if that could give them some ideas into whether this was all planned, how long he had been planning, what his motivation may have been. we spoke with the sheriff that says one of the many things they're focusing in on honing in on is where the gun came from. you may recall he walked into this school behind me, arapahoe high school, with a shotgun. it wasn't even concealed. where did that come from, what hands did it pass. the sheriff hoping to bring more details at a press conference this afternoon. yesterday was a horrifying scene for the students in particular who had to go into lockdown as shots rang out. listen to how it all unfolded. >> school on lockdown, not sure why. there's smoke. the north side of the school. there's a fire in the library. >> chaos and confusion at arapahoe high school. >> i am on the north side, entering the west parking lot.

i have a student down in the athletic hall. two shotgun shells on the ground here. >> reporter: the high school is still a crime scene. >> at this time we have one student down and they found shotgun shells. >> reporter: police say the gunman identified as 18-year-old karl pierson shot one student before turning the gun on himself, taking his own life. >> it was pretty scary. there were two shots by my classroom. so we heard the screaming. >> reporter: pierson appears to have been seeking revenge against a specific faculty member because of what police call a confrontation or disagreement. witnesses saw pierson enter arapahoe high school carrying a shotgun. he made no attempt to hide it. >> i saw him. he was kind of running military toward the building. i alerted everybody in the building. and that's when i heard two big bangs, boom, pop.

>> reporter: police say pierson asked other students the whereabouts of that faculty member, reportedly the school librarian and head of the debate team. >> when the teacher heard this individual was asking for him, the teacher exited the school immediately. my opinion was the most important tactical decision that could have been made. >> reporter: in addition to the shotgun, authorities found two molotov cocktails in the school. one was rendered safe, the other had been detonated. >> that's why the deputies encountered a large amount of smoke in the immediate area. that was ignited either immediately prior to or during the shots being fired. >> reporter: as part of the investigation, authorities are looking at school surveillance video, and searching his car, his home and another home he had access to. the shooting happened just ten miles from the infamous 1999 columbine high school shooting where eric harris and dylan

klebold killed 12 students and one teacher before killing themselves. >> my husband was a freshman at columbine. so he's freaking out now. it is bringing back horrible memories of that. yeah, it is way too close to home. >> reporter: the only silver lining in this is that nobody else died. the gunman is the only person killed in all this. he did shoot a 15-year-old girl before he killed himself. witnesses say that girl asked for help, screamed for help, apparently she was still in the entrance area of the school, happened to be in the path when the shooter walked into the school. at last check, she's in critical condition after undergoing surgery. we know students here are thinking about her today. they came to the school this morning. some of them trying to start collecting donations for what is likely to be a very long road to recovery. and of course it is just one year, martin, after the

anniversary of the newtown school shooting. so a lot of heavy hearts for the folks that were part of that community, again a year ago today. they're still thinking about how that has transformed the nation. the president and first lady lit candles for each of the victims of the newtown shooting at the white house this morning. 20 children and six adults were killed in that shooting last year. so just too many tragedies all around, martin. >> it is certainly a heartbreaking day. ana, thank you very much. let's move on to some other news now. a storm that's causing misery for people in the midwest today and it's going to spread it eastward. it is nearly a thousand miles wide and pushing east with a mixture of heavy snow and freezing rain. you can take a look at cleveland, ohio, courtesy of wjw, one of my favorites. and we'll also show you we think the scene coming from detroit where it is hovering around 20 degrees. then of course in chicago. folks there have seen the snow, it has been falling since this

morning. the last few hours. that's where jennifer grey is. jennifer, how is it going? how are people handling things there? >> reporter: people are handling things really well. it has been coming down steadily since 5:00 or 6:00 this morning. it is just now starting to let up. you're just now able to see some downtown buildings where you couldn't all morning long. people have been out. but so have the snowplows, they have been clearing streets, salting sidewalks and streets, making things safer here in chicago. but you know, it is not just chicago. this is messy into the northeast. winter still may be officially one week away, by the looks of what's coming down this weekend, you might think otherwise. >> i was home, this started coming down. this has been constant all day. >> the back roads are ice and snow and just makes it hard to drive on and everything. >> reporter: here in chicago, conditions have been downright frigid, dipping below average

temperatures for days. this is jim marks. we caught him running a few minutes ago. you're from d.c., in town for a wedding. some would call you crazy. >> this is a beautiful day for we'ding in december in chicago. love chicago. it is beautiful. >> it is all about the miles. >> yes, getting the miles in. >> this thousand miles storm is on the move, tens of millions in the northeast about to get shellacked by large swathes of snow and ice. some places could see more than a foot of the white stuff. >> this is terrible. >> it is brutal, i don't like it. >> reporter: the wicked weather didn't deter everyone. in mount kisco, the christmas parade went on with santa braving the elements. utility companies and airports are on high alert, as are emergency crews who overnight had to battle bitter conditions and thick ice to fight this fire in new hampshire. with winter storm warnings and watches in effect for large portions of the northeast,

everyone is bracing for what could be a miserable 24 hours. >> reporter: this storm left four inches of snow in chicago as it travels out to the northeast. a little later this afternoon, tonight even into tomorrow morning, places like boston and even upstate new york could see up to a foot of snow before this is said and done. it is expected to move out later tomorrow. that's it from chicago. we'll have more coming up in the next half hour, martin. >> thanks, jennifer. to all our friends in the storm zone, be careful. that includes you, jennifer. thanks. mega millions fever, it is growing. nobody had the winning numbers in last night's drawing. you know how that feeling is, i didn't win. you know what, nobody did. the jackpot is up to $550 million. the next drawing is tuesday. how close did you come? here are the winning numbers in case you didn't know. 19, 24, 26, 27, 70, with a mega

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only from progressive. hello, welcome back, everyone. we are live in colorado where a community and our country is coping with another school shooting. yesterday a student walked into this high school behind me shooting a 15-year-old girl before killing himself. for the past year or so, some lawmakers tried to past laws to help prevent tragedies like this, particularly after the newtown, connecticut shooting last year, and colorado in fact was one of a handful of states that did pass new gun control legislation. but on a national level, there hasn't been a whole lot of success or progress. paul steinhauser has details on that. paul? >> hey, ana. on the eve of the first

anniversary of the sandy hook tragedy, another school shooting, this time in colorado. >> we cleared the school and secured all of the students very quickly. in the year since 20 young children were killed in newtown, connecticut, a push for new gun control laws never made it to the republican controlled house. the bill went down to defeat in a democratic run senate. hours before the new school shooting in colorado, the top senate democrat expressed his frustration. >> shameful that the united states senate can't pass gun safety legislation that would protect the most vulnerable citizens, our kids, our children, our babies. >> one thing that changed in the past year, support for gun control, which went up after the newtown, connecticut massacre, appears to have faded. back in january, people we questioned in a cnn, orc poll, supported stricter gun control laws by 55-44% margin. in the most recent poll, support had waned and the public was divided. two other national surveys show

the same decline. ana? >> all right, conversation continues, thank you, paul steinhauser. as we remember all those that died in the newtown shooting last year, all 26 people, gabby giffords' organization, americans for responsible solutions, has released this video. take a look. asking for help, she teamed up with a woman that lost her six-year-old in newtown. they created a lesson plan to talk about how newtown and other national tragedies are impacting

students. jake tapper spoke with nicole about her role in the project and see how she's coping one year later. >> this past year i have been spending a lot of time getting educated on the causes of gun violence and really committing myself to the mission that sandy hook promised to prevent future gun violence and save lives. it has been a baptism of fire in many respects, but i have learned a lot and i believe there's a lot of hope in terms of positive change we can make happen. >> she says she believes the shooting wouldn't have happened if there were stricter gun laws. >> i believe the sandy hook shooting could have been avoided if proper intervention had been made, if he and his family had received help, had sought help, and had received help at an earlier stage and certainly if there hadn't been that sort of open access to firearms, i

probably wouldn't be sitting here talking to you today, and to be honest, that would be a really good thing. i would ask that you be kind and remember, but really i would love people everywhere to join sandy hook promise, make the promise to parent together because together we can all be part of the solution and prevent gun violence in our communities. >> we will have more on the tragedy in newtown later this hour as we remember it one year later, as well as staying on top of the developing investigation into the shooting that happened in colorado just yesterday, martin. >> ana cabrera, thank you very much. after problems with the health care rollout among other issues, president obama brought in some new advisers to help him recover footing for his second term. we'll tell you why one of those faces may look familiar.

it is safe to say it has been a tough year for president obama. you've had the botched rollout of the obamacare program, other issues like syria that led to a dip in poll numbers. the administration is bringing back a couple of familiar faces to try to turn things around.

brianna keilar looks at whether a reboot can work. >> reporter: back from south africa, and back to cold, hard reality. president obama returned to this. numbers showing just 365,000 americans enrolled in obamacare in the first two months, far short of 1.2 million the white house expected. while half of americans say they disapprove of his signature health care law in a new poll, what may be worse, he has lost credibility. only 37% of those polled say the president is honest and straightforward, according to an nbc, "the wall street journal" poll. >> thank you. >> reporter: can he fix it? he brings in two white house veterans. his former congressional liaison who shepherded passage of obamacare, back to steer it to success, and notably, john po

did he say tow, former chief of staff to clinton, who will be in advisory role as counselor to the president. >> should that be seen as a reset, does the president think he needs a reset? >> it is part of the natural transition you see on an annual basis at the white house. i would anticipate you would see some more of that this year, too. >> reporter: a signal that more changes are to come. now some are asking will staff changes be enough or has the damage to the second term already been done. >> i think staff changes, they help change the media narrative to a certain extent. i am skeptical staff can change the fundamentals of the problems that obama has. >> reporter: those would be his still troubled health care reform program, the economy, recovery is still slow going, and the fact that president obama is still up against a divided congress. brianna keilar, cnn, the white house. skbl so can the president get his political mojo back on

track? bring in emily, strategist from the center for american progress action fund and rick tyler, republican strategist, and former spokesman for newt gingrich. thank you both for joining us. emily, let me start with you. john podesto, one of those familiar names, what does he bring and will it work? >> i think yes and yes. he brings so much. he is so smart in the way, you need to look no further than the way he has built the center for american progress, even what he's done in the past couple weeks. he's always pushing forward a long term look at income inequality and progressive agenda, knows how to handle crisis. he was bill clinton's chief of staff through the entire impeachment trial, knows how to handle it. he brings not just strong in the political agenda, but strong on climate, on health care. these are things the president

needs to hold onto moving forward. we have seen every signal to believe he will. >> let me bring in rick tyler. what do you think, rick, if you could advise the president, give you that soap box, what would you say, is this the right move? >> probably is the right move, john is very capable intellectual. he brought in not so much for policy advice, we know where that is on the center left, he is anti-energy, anti-progress, anti-wealth curious that a lot of health care corporations were donors to the center for american progress. i think the reason john podesto is here, this president knows his presidency because of his credibility is effectively over. and what presidents need to do is have political capital and president obama is in negative deficit. that political capital lends itself to getting congress to do what he wants it to do. he has no political capital. congress can't do what he wants to do. he relies on john to see what he

can do without congress. >> to rick's point, is it all over for obama? is there any hope for immigration reform, given the way health care reform started on a bad foot? >> we have major problems in this country moving things forward. what used to be moderate, reasonable republicans that could come to the middle and work towards things moving forward, moving budgets forward, moving any piece of legislation forward. they're barely able to move now. when you look at it took violence against women act two years to be reauthorized, there's very little to see that the congress will actually work with the president. one of the things he does bring, i agree with rick on this, he really knows how to use the executive actions very well. i think he will bring that. you don't just build political capital by sitting there, you build political capital by moving forward. the president has been very open

asking congress to work with him, bring any good ideas forward. it has been extremely difficult for him to work with the republican majority in the house. now he is looking towards alternatives. >> i think, rick, has to be pointed out democrats at least can say we're not the republican party at this particular moment. what i mean by that is, of course, in fighting that we're seeing a civil war. how badly is that going to echkt republicans, especially when we talk about the next elections. >> one hand, obamacare hurt this president and his credibility, based on a lie. i don't know what else to call it. that doesn't mean republicans will win overwhelming majorities. i might say in counter to the argument congress doesn't get anything done, speaker boehner passed 40 bills to stimulate the economy. none have been taken up by the senate. it works both ways. i don't think you get out of this until the next election. i don't think the president has any credibility to get anything done except for by executive

order and that means challenging the constitution. >> how are republicans going to win office if they're so deeply divided? >> i don't know that they're all deeply divided. every one of them voted against obamacare, every one voted projobs. we have a lot of disagreement in the party, i would rather be divided how to move the country forward than united in the eventual decay. >> rick tyler, we have to live it there, emily tish sus man, thank you for talking about this. nice to see you. in other news, a school shooting in colorado shocked a town, paralyzing students and parents with fear. but what's more shocking is how the shooter's friends describe it. hear what one had to say next.

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a day after a school shooting, ana cabrera is live from centennial. >> reporter: martin, this school is blocked off. investigators are still inside, processing the scene, making sure not to leave any stone unturned. they're also searching the suspect's home and his father's home. the sheriff tells me they're focusing on where the gun came from and just how karl pierson the shooter got his hands on it. trying to figure out why exactly pierson brought the gun to school and opened fire. the sheriff believes pierson was looking for his speech and debate coach and tells us he may have been seeking revenge over some sort of disagreement. i had a chance to speak with an 18-year-old student at arapahoe high school who says he's a friend of the shooter, karl pierson. listen to what he said. >> the shooter actually was a

good friend of mine. i've known him since freshman year. honestly, he was pretty geeky and nerdy but in a charming way. one of the nicest, most humble people i knew. >> when you heard he may be involved? >> i never saw that coming. >> never saw it coming. >> no. >> not the type of person you would expect. >> never. >> any idea where he would have gotten a gun? >> that's actually something i have been talking to everybody with, we have no idea where he could have possibly gotten it. >> and he wasn't a loner, anything like that. >> not really, no. >> part of the speech and debate team? >> right. i don't know a lot of people that don't like him. no one has anything bad to say about him. >> reporter: other students we have been talking to tell us that he was a very good person about expressing his own viewpoints, that he did have strong political beliefs, people described him as having somewhat of an anger, frustration against the government, believed it was communist, that he also being

part of the speech and debate team did not like to lose an argument. so those are some of the pieces that we're starting to put together some of the puzzle behind what happened here and the mystery. of course, there was another victim in all of this. the shooter killed himself, but not before he opened fire, hitting a 15-year-old girl. that girl is still in critical condition at the hospital today. we are in touch with hospital officials as well as the sheriff's department, so we're sure to bring you the very latest as we get it. martin? >> ana, thank you very much. let's check on the 1,000 mile snowstorm that's effecting millions from the midwest to the east. jennifer grey is one of the millions, standing outside in chicago. at least it is looking a little better, jennifer. >> reporter: yeah, the snow has started to let up, it really came down for about six hours earlier this morning. now we're starting to see it let up a little bit.

clouds are starting to lift a little bit. you're just now able to see downtown. look at this. it snowed for six hours straight. we got about four inches of snow in chicago. comes up halfway to my knees. we have also seen snowplows out, doing a good job of clearing out the streets, sidewalks. we have seen salt trucks come every so often as well. doing a great job as far as that's concerned. bridges and overpasses will definitely be slow moving as we go through the next couple days. temperatures here in chicago are not expected to get above freezing until thursday. temperatures have been at or below freezing since december 7th. very cold here in chicago. like you mention, the storm system stretching about a thousand miles from east to west. this is not only effecting chicago, it is effecting areas like d.c., new york, boston, as it continues to make its way to the east. so what we're going to be dealing with through the rest of this afternoon, tonight into

tomorrow, the snow will linger into new york and boston before clearing out tomorrow. advisories are in effect all across the northeast and ohio valley. we're going to see possible five to seven inches of snow in places like new york city. and we could see even higher amounts as we go into places like boston, even upstate new york. so there's an hour by hour forecast for you, showing the storm system pushing up the coast and pushing off the northeast as we go through tomorrow afternoon. but very cold temperatures are going to stay in place all across the north, northeast, and mid-atlantic. we're going to be in the deep freeze, martin, for quite awhile, here in chicago especially at least until thursday. >> at least it is the weekend. if you don't have to go out, i guess you shouldn't, except for you, jennifer. we need you out there. >> that's the good news. >> we will be back in touch. a man accused of planning a suicide attack at wichita airport by driving a car he thought was loaded with real

explosives. joe johns tells us how the fbi caught the man before he could do any real harm. >> reporter: martin, the fbi says he was set up by a pair of undercover fbi agents. thought he was about to detonate a car bomb. when he tried to enter the airport with a vehicle, he was arrested. the guy's name, terry loewen. he works at the wichita airport, charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, a car bomb, attempting to provide material support to terrorism. according to court documents, the fbi and united states attorney's office say loewen had an online chat with someone and allegedly said he wanted to engage in violent jihad on behalf of al qaeda. what he didn't know is he was chatting online with an fbi employee, and the employee offered to introduce him to someone who would help him with this violent jihad. and the court documents describe fbi employees number one and later number two who pretended to be an accomplice of part of

what was a sting operation. they nabbed loewen when he tried to enter the airport gate with a security pass. he thought he had explosives in the car but they were not active because they were provided by the agents. these types of so-called aspirational terror cases have become controversial recently. the question is whether it makes sense to go after individuals who have terror plans, even if the plans are not fully operational, because the cases can be expensive and time consuming to prosecute. the fbi said many times since 9/11 its mission has switched to prevention of terrorism and this is the kind of case that shows just how far they'll go to do it. martin? >> thank you, joe, very much. last night if you didn't win the mega millions, your dreams did not come true. the odds of you winning, we'll look at the reality coming up. ♪

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and texting. the commission says new technology >> i don't want somebody sitting next to me saying, hi, i'm on the plane. >> that's more noise, more stress to the flight. >> one commissioner bombarded with letters from opponents. >> a third wrote simply "no!" >> reporter: the fcc chairman says it's their job to worry about technology, not what passengers want. >> i'm the last person in the world who wants to listen to somebody talking to me while i fly across the country, but we are the technical agency, and we will make a technical rule that reflects the way the new technology works. >> reporter: thursday the department of transportation said it would consider possibly banning the in flight calls. the us-dot's role is to determine if allowing these calls is fair to consumers, secretary anthony foxx said in a statement. in congress a new senate bill

also ames to ban the calls. it joins republican bill shuster's house proposal. >> these airplanes are confined, they're noisy already, and to have dozens of phone calls going on while in flight i think is annoying to the traveling public and i just think it's unnecessary. >> reporter: but on air, which provides cell service on planes says passengers haven't complained. most users text, and the $3 to $4 a minute cost keeps calls short. >> well, martin, on one hand you have the fcc which voted to consider lifting the ban. on the other hand, you have the department of transportation considering blocking in flight calls. what does that mean for you, the passenger? don't start dialing just yet. all right. on to news of a higher altitude, mainly the moon. china's newest spacecraft has landed there today. that makes china only the third country to make a soft landing

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your money is just minutes away. christine romans has a preview. >> hi, martin. the economy is showing some signs of strength, but extended unemployment benefits will expire at the end of the month for 1.3 million americans. is now really the time to cut big holes in the safety net? that's coming up next on an all new "your money."

>> thanks, christine. we'll see you in just a bit. meanwhile, let's go back to colorado. anna cabrera. >> reporter: of course, today we're here reporting live from the scene of yet another school shooting. today is the one-year anniversary since the horrible tragedy at sandy hook elementary school. 20 first graders and six adults that the school were shot and killed. anderson cooper had a chance to talk to some of the victims about that horrible day, and the legacies are now creating for their children one year later. >> i was sure she was going to walk out. i didn't understand the magnitude of the situation until about 2:00 in the afternoon. >> i was at work, and i was driving back, and i'm calling her and asking for information. she's, like, i don't have any information. i'm, like, why am i getting better information off a.m. news radio than i am from you? you're standing right there. i was about a mile from newtown when they came out and said 20

children were killed, six adults, and it struck me. thank god it was only a mile from there because if i had to drive on 48, you know, i would have run the car off the road because it was just -- it was such a disturbing disconcerting moment. >> eventually a police officer unlocked the door, and there was a swat team. i grabbed two of my students' hands. the swat team members grabbed a hand or two, and we fled out of the back of the school. >> katilyn and her first graders all survived. three of the five first grade classrooms escaped unharmed that day. and the other two a different story. >> they finally said if are you in this room and you are waiting, there's, you know -- >> your loved one is not coming back. >> reporter: among the 20 children and six educators who

died that day. >> i think there's not a minute, not a second of any day that goes by where somewhere in my head i'm thinking i don't have my daughter. she's gone. that's always in my head. >> it's every second of every day that she's not with me, and that's enough. >> literally days after we lost her, we said we have to do something. it's just in our nature. >> it may have even been that very day. i remember asking why would somebody walk into the school and kill my child. i need to know that answer. i have to have that answer. >> do you think there is always a why? >> because we don't know the answer doesn't mean there isn't a cause. >> yeah. >> reporter: even before the funeral, her parents set off on

a mission to honor her by searching for answers. they weren't the only ones. >> you know, we can't go back in time, but we can take what we have learned and honor our daughter by doing something with it. >> we are kind of faced with do you want to do something or do you want to do nothing, and there is no question. >> and we hope you will join us on cnn tonight at 8:00 eastern to meet many more of the sandy hook parents now on missions of love to turn their losses into legacies. we'll be playing an anderson cooper special report honoring the children newtown one year later. again, that's at 8:00 eastern. martin, back to you. >> thank you, anna, very much. newsroom returns at the bottom of the hour with all the day's top stories, including that 1,000 mile weather system that's got people digging from the midwest to the east. in the meantime, your money

starts right now. bipartisan support has turned into a family feud. this is "your money. on" paul ryan and patty murray agreeing on a deal. house republicans passed it thursday evening, and the senate is expected to do the same next week. it sets a spending limit and erases those steep across the board cuts next year and adds some other cuts. >> you can't get everything you want, but you can get things done if you focus on that common ground area. i'm not going to begrudge anybody who for one reason or another chooses not to vote for it. things aren't perfect, but we think this is a step in the right direction. >> republicans started whining about what republicans were giving into, and democrats started whining about what democrats were giving up. ken rogoff is a professor at harvard university and the former chief